This is an analysis of the poem Le Meurtre that begins with:
En ces heures de vice et de crime rigides,
Se rêve un meurtre ardent, que la nuit grandirait...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,7,2,7,2,7,2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001101100 1111110111100 011010111100 1011100111 11110110111100 11101111110 111011111110 111010111 1111100111 1101011111 0110011110 111111111111 11110011111 11010111000 1101111000101 11111011000 11110111110 1111111110 10111011110 11101111100 11110010101 101111011 1110011110 110110101110 1111110110 10101101101 11101111100 110010111010 1011100011000 110011101110 0111111000 01101101110 1011111100100 111110000 1110101101100 10101110010 101111110 101111011 11010111101 111110110010 10011111101110 110100010100 1111010110 101110101100 110000111010 111010111011 1101011101010 1101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, qui, les, mes, un, la, peur, te are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, le, un are repeated.
The author used the same words un, et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Meurtre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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